The origin of the hominine lineage—encompassing modern humans, chimpanzees, gorillas, and their ancestors—is one of ...

The 3.2-million-year-old human ancestor known as Lucy sparked a revolution in scientists’ understanding of the origins of ...

In essence, the task of holding an object is dependent on your fingers as much as it is on your brain. The same is true of ...

New research based on the findings, published in several papers Wednesday in Nature and its sister journals, represents a “leap in understanding of the human body,” according to the Human Cell ...

The last two decades have witnessed explosive growth in nanoengineering and nanomedicine. In particular, engineered ...

An ambitious plan to map all 37 trillion cells in the human body is transforming understanding of how our bodies work, scientists report. The received wisdom said we were built from around 200 ...

A team of international scientists has taken a giant leap in mapping the human body's estimated 37.2 trillion cells. The groundbreaking research, led by the Human Cell Atlas (HCA), involves ...

How these tiny particles may harm our health is unclear, but scientists are alarmed by what they are finding so far ...

In this article, we describe common and uncommon viral exanthems, based on their morphology ... commonly caused by the Coxsackie A16 virus and human enterovirus 71. Meningoencephalitis and ...

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Nuclear condensates play many important roles in chromatin functions, but how cells regulate their nucleation and growth within the complex nuclear environment is not well understood. Here, we report ...

Tumor cells transform fibroblasts into cancer-associated fibroblasts, which have an important immunosuppressive activity on which growth, invasion, and metastasis depend. These activated fibroblasts ...